18 Bible Verses about Why People Did Things

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.

Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys."

And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

He said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.

And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed.

And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.

He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"